Nineteen eighty-four: science between Utopia and dystopia

Metadata, The Public-Private Nexus and Modern Surveillance

This essay discusses the relation of surveillance in the modern world to that in the surveillance society of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. We establish a link between the motivations of the governments in the two worlds, and use this link to investigate the role of surveillance in each society. We further analyze the two primary types of modern surveillance — internet tracking and data collect...

Multidimensional Utopia: Chinese Logic of the Future Imagination of the Three-body Problem1

The greatest charm of science fiction is not the artistic imagination, but the scientific imagination.Liu Cixin’s the Three-body Problem as a Chinese science fiction novel, reflected Chinese writer how to think science and technology and its possible future of mankind’s imagination. This novel contained “Deconstruction” Utopia, “Transcendence” dystopia and “Composited” Heterotopias, Which fully...

Addressing a Future with Data Visualization on Science Fiction Movies: Dystopia or Utopia

While the far-fetched ideas brought up with imagination are shedding lights on Science Fiction Movies, occasionally ever-growing technology has been fuelled by these creative inspirations and imaginations. This article reflects on the findings of the data visualization project Dystopia-Utopia (www.dystopia-utopia.com) and investigates the existence of a common discourse that would stand out in ...

BETWEEN UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA: THE LABILITIES OF NATIONALISIvI IN EASTERN EUROPE

The Visualisation of Utopia in Recent Science Fiction Film

Utopia can be conceived as a possibility – a space within language, a set of principles, or the product of technological development – but it cannot be separated from questions of place, or more accurately, questions of “no place.” In between the theoretically imaginable utopia and its realisation in a particular time and place, there is a space of critique, which is exploited in anti-Utopian a...